Still can't seem to find an invite.
Poll: What do you think of Google+?
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#152Google+ solves most of the problems I have with Facebook. The circles more or less reimplement what I have been using with Livejournal for ten years now. I've been migrating as many of my contacts off of FB as I can, with the plan to cull my FB friends list and then ditching it as far as daily use is concerned.
If I am applying the Gervais Principle right, Google+ will never completely supplant Facebook. That's fine by me.
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#153I find I miss the simplicity of Facebook to a degree. With plus, it's not really clear who I'm sharing what with at any given time, or what the relationships I've set up are. Facebook has one kind of relationship (1-1) and one kind of sharing (to your friends or to everybody, depending on how your security settings are configured). It's also missing a number of essential (at least for college students) facebook featu…
Have you ever clicked the little padlock next to the Share input widget? You can choose between Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends only, or Customize. If you choose the last one, you can select groups of friends or individual friends, or everyone except a list of excluded friends. Facebook has gotten pretty complicated...
Yes. I saw that. It doesn't work all that well.
One of the comments I saw on Google+ is making a distinction between a "plaza" and a "warren". Facebook defaults to plaza though it can do warren with some contortion. Likewise, Google+ defaults to warren and can do plaza with some contortion.
With my wide-ranging interests and extremely, sometimes mutually-exclusive perspectives, personal beliefs, pet philosophies and operating paradigm, I prefer a social network that defaults to a "warren".
In the end, it is probably a case of the "Evil Twin": http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/09/17/your-evil-twins-and-how...
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#154I think the circles thing is a bit stressful. Making me sort my friends out is "making me think" and not fun.
They tried to make it "fun" with the drag'n'drop UI. Personally I think circles is the biggest part of the +. I can finally interact properly with my Family, Buddies, Coworkers and so on.
I can see the attraction - it's a sensible idea, it's just that I can also think of it being stressful: who did I just tell I'm going to quit my job? Who should I tell that we're moving? Is someone going to get offended if those circles leak and they've been placed in the 'wrong' one?
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#155With all the hype surrounding google+ it's a crying shame it's not openly available. Within a couple of days my interest will have subsided and it will be nothing but a distant memory .. which I can imagine will be the case for a lot of people. Hopefully if it is any good, it will claw it's way back into the media spotlight, but how many people will try for a second time to sign up. IMHO the invite only plan will kil…
I haven't seen any hype surrounding google+ except for HN and other similar communities. I don't think the regular FB user is even aware that google+ is in testing phase, or that google is even working on anything like it. Heck, how many have heard of google wave outside of the geek circle?
I thought the same about Chrome when it was released, then one day there was a link in the Google Search homepage telling everyone about it.